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Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Allon Peebles fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Peebles, Allon
  
• Published/Created:1900-2010
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
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  • Number of Items:7
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 5 Requested
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Peebles, Allon, 1900-1962
  
• Description:75 cm of textual records and other materials.
  
• Summary:This fonds consists of records relating to Dr. Peeble's family and professional life, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs and pamphlets, photographs, and DVDs. This fonds also includes records relating to various family members, created and acquired by Allon Peebles' daughter Priscilla Galloway. The fonds is arranged into nine series, which include, Condolence Letters and Budget Book, Reports and Publications, Correspondence, Family History, Event and Travel Memorabilia, Photographs, Multimedia, Certificates, and Writings.
  
• Additional formats:Includes: 235 photographs, 1 photo album, 3 DVDs, and 7 certificates
  
• Biography/history note:Dr. Allon Peebles was born on October 20, 1900, in New Westminster. He graduated from UBC in 1920 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. Dr. Peebles taught economics at the University of California, and later at Columbia. He also worked with a committee in the United States on the costs of medical care. He married Noeline Bruce in 1926, and they had three daughters: Priscilla, Jane, and Noeline. A medical and labour research economist, Peebles was chairperson of B.C.'s first Health Insurance Commission in 1936 and helped fashion the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service. Peebles and Harry Morris Cassidy wrote the 1936 Health Insurance Act. In 1941, Peebles went to Ottawa as the first executive director of the Unemployment Commission and was in charge of the labour department's research and statistics. He wrote several books, and non-published works, on medical facilities, insurance, care, fishing, advice to his daughters, sketches from his boyhood, and other writings. After retiring from the labour department in 1947, Peebles entered private business in Chatham, Ontario. He died in Ottawa on March 13, 1962.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:File list available.
  
• Notes:The arrangement of this fonds largely follows the organization done by Allon Peebles' daughter Priscilla Galloway, especially in the case of the five family history binders and albums prepared by her. These have been placed in folders in the same order as they were found in the albums and binders. Handwritten post-it notes as well as printed information written by Patricia Galloway, are included in several of the files. Post-its have been placed on separate sheets and interleaved with the materials they were originally attached to. Typed notes have been left in the order in which they were originally placed among the material.